APRIL 2018 HEARD AT MEETINGS

from the meeting someone said to me you don’t have to leave we’re here for you.

Anonymous

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I had a suicide pact, either Alcoholics Anonymous

was going to work or I was going to kill myself.

Anonymous

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In Cork Ireland they said that the greatest thing

America ever sent to him was The Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Anonymous

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There are no must in this program but there

are musts in this church, we have rules and we need to follow.

Anonymous

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I need to remember that life is not acumulative,

it’s one day at a time.

Anonymous

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When I is in the hospital and realized that

I had no goals, no dreams and no Ambitions.

Anonymous

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I had no clue on how I could change my life.

Anonymous

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My mother is a wonderful woman today,

she didn’t change, I changed.

Anonymous

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Once that I was able to say I was a duck

then the solution was there.

Anonymous

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That I crawled out of the gutter and had become a

delegate is mine blogging.

Anonymous

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When I quit drinking the hormones came in and took over.

Anonymous

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When I was seven I always got the beer for

my dad from the fridge and after a while he said it no more.

Anonymous

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That first drink felt like self destruction and it felt okay.

Then I had another, etc etc.

Anonymous

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My family thought it was okay to drink in the

house but not outside, don’t bring shame.

Anonymous

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At 23 my kidneys were shutting down and I thought

if I just tried the soda I would be okay.

Anonymous

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I wrapped my car around a tree anda 400-pound

Hawaiian pick me up and said ‘are you okay?’

And I said ‘yeah, put me down’ if I had waited around

they would have given e a blood test and on the way

home I hit someone. I had a major concussion.

Anonymous

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I would have five or six dollars a day coming in

and I was sure I was okay. My family wanted

to take me in but I said no, I’m okay.

Anonymous

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After I was in the fellowship my grandfather

said I don’t know what you doing but keep doing it.

A week later he died from an aneurysm. I know

that he was proud of me.

Anonymous

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I can say that I’m going to lay my head
on my pillow sober tonight and tomorrow
I’m going to wake up sober.
Anonymous
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It’s not that I don’t like speaking,
it’s just that I’ve always had feelings of inadequacy.
Anonymous
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When I started drinking it was like a light bulb
that been turned on I no longer felt different.
Anonymous
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My parents are awesome, but I cursed them,
spit on them and I didn’t care for anyone.
Anonymous
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At 43 I said that will never happen
to me in at age 47 that was me.
Anonymous
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It’s 10 years now and those problems then don’t exist today.
Anonymous
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Because I’m sober now I can be responsible
to my family and friends and my job.
Anonymous
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I have to rely on something other than that
Obsession of the Mind, being sober is not enough,
I need my higher power.
Anonymous
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“”I can still have bad days…
but I no longer have bad years.”

Anonymous

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“Don’t go through life, grow through life.”

Anonymous

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The last mosquito that bit me ended up in the Betty Ford Clinic.